Word: hypertexts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While students can use hypertext links to get to any location on the Web, the URL allows them to jump to specific locations quickly...
Sound is another important component. Often, a Web hypertext "page" will include links to sound data. For example, the White House Web site (http://www.whitehouse.gov) includes a now-famous link between a picture of Socks the cat and a sound of Socks meowing...
Similarly, if a user were to click on the hypertext word "chickwich," the computer might bring up a picture of a chickwich or perhaps the sound of a Harvard student saying "Mmm...good...
This characteristic is made possible by a component of Web protocol known as the Uniform Resource Locator, or URL. This is a special address that identifies where objects on the Web are retrievable. Commonly, these addresses begin with "http," which stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. This indicates that the object to be retrieved involves Web-standard hypertext...
...boon of URLs is that they are linked to Web hypertext. But graphics and sounds are not the only objects that have URLs. Entire Web sites can be located by using URLs. It is through such URLs that any one Web page can include links to any number of other Web pages, thus creating a "world-wide...